Saturday, April 16, 2011
LOVE
Today's film is the German, NYTimes Critics' Pick, Maren Ade's
The review is excellent reading after you see the film. Very good. Very wise.
A young couple just newly in love vacation at his mother's home in Sardinia.
We get to watch the relationship and all its subtleties for quite awhile. It might appear that things are not going anywhere but if you tweak your observer up and quit waiting for a Hollywood style lay it in your lap, you will be rewarded with, of all things, feelings. You will fell what these young people are saying to each other and to "everyone else".
Soon, they meet another couple about whom the less said the better at this point. But these more settled people have a more settled relationship and the young couple responds to this in both talk between them and in action.
There is fallout.
This is so like my own experience back then and now that it is quite shocking to find these feelings still alive and well.
Years of practice in negotiating the space between people still does not prepare one for the little rapids and whirlpools that come along.
Not a spoiler, but I have even been lost with my lover. I mean lost lost.
This is not a comedy although it is often amusing. It is not a tragedy even though very serious things happen and very deeply felt charges are made. It is quite lifelike.
The young couple are beautifully filmed and perfect for each other and the story. They are not yet molded by life. They are almost innocent.
I will see this again.
That makes it a 5 out of Netflix5.
